(n)a bluish-white lustrous metallic element; brittle at ordinary temperatures but malleable when heated; used in a wide variety of alloys and in galvanizing iron; it occurs naturally as zinc sulphide in zinc blende, Syn.Zn, atomic number 30
[周瑜, Zhōu Yú, ㄓㄡ ㄩˊ]Zhou Yu or Chou Yü (175-210), famous general of the southern Wu kingdom and victor of the battle of Redwall; in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, absolutely no match for Zhuge Liang#19755[Add to Longdo]
[张学良 / 張學良, Zhāng Xué liáng, ㄓㄤ ㄒㄩㄝˊ ㄌㄧㄤˊ]Zhang Xueliang (1901-2001) son of Fengtian clique warlord, then senior general for the Nationalist and subsequently for PRC People's liberation army#20515[Add to Longdo]
[曾庆红 / 曾慶紅, Zēng Qìng hóng, ㄗㄥ ㄑㄧㄥˋ ㄏㄨㄥˊ]Zeng Qinghong (1939-), politician, vice-president of PRC since 2003 and party secretary-general from 2007#22978[Add to Longdo]
[赵紫阳 / 趙紫陽, zhào zǐ yáng, ㄓㄠˋ ㄗˇ ㄧㄤˊ]Zhao Ziyang (1919-2005), PRC politician, party general secretary from 1987, sacked after the 4th Jun 1989 Tiananmen incident and kept under house arrest for the rest of his life#23960[Add to Longdo]
[朱熹, Zhū xī, ㄓㄨ ㄒㄧ]Zhu Xi or Chu Hsi (1130-1200), also known as Master Zhu 朱子, Song dynasty Confucian writer and propagandist, founder of neo-Confucianism#31406[Add to Longdo]
[左传 / 左傳, Zuǒ zhuàn, ㄗㄨㄛˇ ㄓㄨㄢˋ]Zuozhuan or Tsochuan, Mr Zuo's annals or Mr Zuo's commentary on 春秋, early history c. 400 BC attributed to famous blind historian Zuo Qiuming 左丘明#35952[Add to Longdo]
[张国焘 / 張國燾, Zhāng Guó tào, ㄓㄤ ㄍㄨㄛˊ ㄊㄠˋ]Zhang Guotao (1897-1979), Chinese communist leader in the 1920s and 1930s, defected to Guomindang in 1938#39888[Add to Longdo]
[赵括 / 趙括, Zhào Kuò, ㄓㄠˋ ㄎㄨㄛˋ]Zhao Kuo (-260 BC), hapless general of Zhao 趙國|赵国, who famously led an army of 400, 000 to annihilation at Changping in 260 BC; also called Ma Fuzi 馬服子|马服子#41677[Add to Longdo]
[张华 / 張華, Zhāng Huà, ㄓㄤ ㄏㄨㄚˋ]Zhang Hua (232-300), Western Jin writer, poet and politician; Zhang Hua (1958-1982), student held up as a martyr after he died saving an old peasant from a septic tank; other Zhang Hua's too numerous to mention#41982[Add to Longdo]
[张志新 / 張志新, Zhāng Zhì xīn, ㄓㄤ ㄓˋ ㄒㄧㄣ]Zhang Zhixin (1930-1975) female revolutionary and martyr, who followed the true Marxist-Leninist line as a party member, and was arrested in 1969, murdered in 1975 after opposing the counter-revolutionary party-usurping conspiracies of Lin Biao and the Ga#68341[Add to Longdo]
[朱温 / 朱溫, Zhū Wēn, ㄓㄨ ㄨㄣ]Zhu Wen (852-912), military governor 節度使 at the end of Tang, founder of Later Liang of the Five Dynasties (907-923); also called 后梁太祖#83414[Add to Longdo]
[张若虚 / 張若虛, Zhāng Ruò xū, ㄓㄤ ㄖㄨㄛˋ ㄒㄩ]Zhang Ruoxu (c. 660-720), Tang dynasty poet, author of yuefu poem River on a spring night 春江花月夜#182115[Add to Longdo]
[祝枝山, Zhù Zhī shān, ㄓㄨˋ ㄓ ㄕㄢ]Zhu Zhishan (1460-1526), Ming calligrapher and poet, one of Four great southern talents of the Ming 江南四大才子#185107[Add to Longdo]
[锺繇 / 鍾繇, Zhōng Yáo, ㄓㄨㄥ ㄧㄠˊ]Zhong Yao (151-230), minister of Cao Wei 曹魏 and noted calligrapher, said to have developed the regular script 楷书[Add to Longdo]
[ぶん, bun](n) (1) (See 文・もん・2) one-tenth; one percent (one-tenth of a wari); 3 mm (one-tenth of a sun); 2.4 mm (one-tenth of a mon, a traditional unit used to measure shoe sizes); 0.375 grams (one-tenth of a monme); 0.1 degree (one-tenth of a do, used to measure body temperature on any temperature scale); (2) one-quarter of a ryou (obsolete unit of currency); (3) thickness; (4) advantageous circumstances#146[Add to Longdo]
[つくる, tsukuru](v5r, vt) (1) (造る usu. for large-scale building, manufacturing, etc. 創る usu. for creating) to make; to produce; to manufacture; to build; to construct; (2) to prepare (food); to brew (alcohol); (3) (See 野菜を作る) to raise; to grow; to cultivate; to train; (4) to till; (5) to draw up (a document); to make out; to prepare; to write; (6) to create (an artistic work, etc.); to compose; (7) to coin (a phrase); to organize; to organise; to establish; to found; (8) to have (a child); (9) to make up (one's face, etc.); (10) to fabricate (an excuse, etc.); (11) to form (a line, etc.); (12) to set (a record); (13) to commit (a sin, etc.); (P)#1759[Add to Longdo]
[おちる, ochiru](v1, vi) (1) to fall down; to drop; to fall (e.g. rain); to sink (e.g. sun or moon); to fall onto (e.g. light or one's gaze); to be used in a certain place (e.g. money); (2) to be omitted; to be missing; (3) to decrease; to sink; (4) to fail (e.g. exam or class); to lose (contest, election, etc.); (5) to crash; to degenerate; to degrade; to fall behind; (6) to become indecent (of a conversation); (7) to be ruined; to go under; (8) (See 狐が落ちる・きつねがおちる) to fade; to come out (e.g. a stain); to come off (e.g. makeup); to be removed (e.g. illness, possessing spirit, name on a list); (9) to fall (into someone's hands); to become someone's possession; (10) to fall (into a trap); to fall (for a trick); (11) to give in; to give up; to confess; to flee; (12) to fall; to be defeated; to surrender; (13) to come to (in the end); to end in; (14) (See 恋に落ちる・こいにおちる, 眠りに落ちる・ねむりにおちる) to fall (in love, asleep, etc.); (15) to swoon (judo); (16) (See 腑に落ちない・ふにおちない) to consent; to understand; (17) { comp } to crash; to freeze; (18) (of animals) to die; (19) (of fish when it gets cold) to move to the depths; (P)#11304[Add to Longdo]
[uo-mubizu](n) (See クールビズ) WARM BIZ (Japanese government campaign encouraging companies to set their heater thermostats to 20 degrees Celsius over the winter)[Add to Longdo]
[しょうき, shouki](n) (1) Shoki the Plague-Queller; Zhong Kui (traditional Chinese deity said to prevent plagues and ward off evil beings); vanquisher of ghosts and evil beings, and reputedly able to command 80, 000 demons; (2) Shoki (WWII fighter aircraft)[Add to Longdo]
[せかいよんだいぶんめい, sekaiyondaibunmei](n) the four great civilizations of the world (China, Babylon, India and Egypt as put forward by Chinese scholar Liang Qichao in 1900)[Add to Longdo]
[だいやくしん, daiyakushin](n) (1) Great Leap Forward (failed attempt to industrialize China and increase agricultural production, from 1958-1960); (n, vs) (2) significant breakthrough; great strides[Add to Longdo]